Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Hubbard has moved That the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics investigate the actions of the Conservative Party of Canada during the 2006 election, in relation to which Elections Canada has refused to reimburse Conservativ

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, the chair is at liberty to vote the way he wishes; however, there has been a convention, if I can use that word, that rather than stop debate, the chair usually rules to continue debate.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The next committee meeting will be Tuesday, May 6, when we have the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. They will be accompanied—we're waiting for final confirmation that this is going to happen—by the Canada Border Services Agency. Next

Information & Ethics committee  Repeat after me, please: The evidence I shall give on this examination shall be the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.

Information & Ethics committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Alford. Do you have the Bible in your hand?

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Martin has moved that this committee report to the Speaker that Mr. Schreiber should be held in supervised house arrest for the period of time he is required to be available to appear as a witness before the committee.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Monsieur Thibault moved—this is subject to his correcting me—that in the second line we delete the words “meeting for two hours twice a week”, and in the end of the third line delete “for”, and on the fourth line “each hearing, extended hearings each week,

Information & Ethics committee  The full motion, with the amendment included, is that it is moved by Pat Martin from Winnipeg Centre: That notwithstanding the usual format of the Committee, that the Committee subcommittee on agenda and procedure meet today 27 November to develop a plan for extended hours and

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, the summons was in fact faxed to the superintendent of the Toronto West Detention Centre yesterday, because he has to screen all of Mr. Schreiber's incoming mail. The summons was also sent to a lawyer for the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General. The original we

Information & Ethics committee  They voted against it.

Information & Ethics committee  It reads: That the committee issue a summons that Mr. Karlheinz Schreiber appear before this committee. Sometimes we may include the date and the time, but it is difficult now, in the sense that Mr. Schreiber is in detention in Toronto and we're not sure when we could have hi

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Hubbard has moved essentially that the committee issue a summons to Mr. Schreiber. Whatever the committee decides, it has to be done as a committee. That's where we are at.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. After “Karlheinz Schreiber before the committee”, Mr. Wallace, I believe, is proposing that.... Today is not in the equation because Mr. Schreiber is in Toronto, so the next one would be “Tuesday November 27th and/or Thursday November 29th; and/or Brian Mul

Information & Ethics committee  —I'm sorry. And then “Thursday December 6th and/or Tuesday December 11” . I believe that's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  In the document that was submitted yesterday afternoon from Mr. Hubbard, perhaps members would go down to the seventh line in English. I believe it's the same in French. After the word “present”, Mr. Wallace has proposed “and past”, which would read “and past governments”.